Reykjavik, Iceland / Tallin, Estonia

August 2025 - July 2026

• Managed data collection of public and private data sources related to security, defense and intelligence. Sources included (GIS, AIS, ADS-B, weather radars).

• Low-level GIS custom analysis code (i.e. GDAL, NetCDF).

• Worked within the backend team on systems-level, high-throughput data analysis systems using the Jai programming language.

• Architected data processing pipelines for managing jobs, VM containers, status and processes in Kubernetes from a simple UI.

• Other sample projects included global data mipmapping and custom database internals design.

Cambridge, UK / Remote

September 2025 - Present

• Mentored projects from inception through to final presentations on topics including alternative finance models, FinTech industry standards and Supervisory Technology (SupTech) development.

• Students consisted of senior-level employees of national and global financial supervisory regulatory organizations and ministerial-level offices.

Remote (Freelance Client)

April 2020 - Present

• Took over and stabilized Riskminr, a specialized search and analysis platform for agricultural regulatory documents, after departure of original developer.

• Developed new custom deployment system and scraper management system.

• Conducted in-depth assessment of legacy systems; implemented key fixes across Redis, Elasticsearch, Svelte, and Gin (Golang) stacks to restore and enhance production functionality.

• Collaborated with stakeholders, including funders and editorial staff, to define feature priorities and deploy new capabilities tailored to investigative newsroom workflows.

New York, NY

February 2023 - December 2025

• Monitored social media for financial regulatory agencies and central banks

• Conducted sentiment and topics analysis for regulated institutions with a focus on the developing world.

• Worked with financial regulators, central banks, governmental agencies, aligned NGOs and universities to identify internal needs and solutions, then sold and deployed on-premises, custom hosted, or cloud and support for all aspects of the product.

• Designed and developed and managed a team building custom web and social media scrapers, ETL systems, and AI/ML models to track and categorize financial system complaint patterns at scale.

• Built the company from an idea stage to $200k+/year in its first-year sales.

San Francisco, CA / Remote

May 2025 – October 2025

• Developed custom scrapers and infrastructure for special projects including archiving 4 million Facebook political ads covering European and global markets.

• Ensured proper WARC archiving and management of scraping systems.

Basel, Switzerland

May 2021 – December 2021

• Led development of international banking RFIs, RFQs, and ITTs for AI/ML-driven regulatory solutions, coordinating between BIS departments and member central banks

• Managed technical and budgetary aspects of cross-border anti-money laundering initiatives, ensuring alignment with diverse institutional priorities and cultural requirements

Columbia, Missouri

August 2017 – May 2018

• Conducted in-depth packet-level research on anti-censorship and anti-surveillance technologies and anti-free-speech techniques in use by nation states.

• Developed custom simulation systems to test and validate nation-state level censorship and surveillance circumvention tools

• Led development and deployment of Push, an open-source, turn-key mobile news app ecosystem

Durham, NC

February 2015 – April 2025

• Co-developed ClaimReview and MediaReview standards, the fact-checking infrastructure now used by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft

• Led design and development of MediaVault, a social media archiving system with custom scrapers for major platforms, that archived over 21,000 pieces of media with 400+ users in almost 100 countries

• Designed and developed "Squash" a cloud-based machine learning and computational fact-checking system featuring real-time speech-to-text, speaker identification, and AI/ML claim matching for live broadcast verification

• Architected and developed FactStream iOS app (4.5+ stars, 3000+ reviews) and Share the Facts widget system, serving 40+ international newsrooms with millions of daily requests

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

December 2014 – December 2016

• Member of the data analysis team that created and published the Panama Papers, which won the UK’s Investigation of the Decade Award, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, and several other awards

• Developed and maintained security infrastructure across partner newsrooms in repressive regimes, including security training and incident response

• Developed and coordinated cross-border investigative technology used in newsrooms across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

• Applied OSINT and large-scale data analysis techniques on multilingual financial documents, shipping manifests, housing records, and legal proceedings

• Travelled throughout post-Soviet states while navigating complex cultural differences and institutional requirements

Remote

April 2020 – April 2021

• Assisted in the development of COVID contact tracing standards with the state of Wisconsin, Apple, and Google, implemented direct OS integration while maintaining stringent data privacy requirements

• Designed automated multi-language solution for City of Boston's IT infrastructure, enabling instant 12+ language translation within existing CMS
  
  

New York, NY

September 2010 – April 2013

• Co-founded and architected the first full-stack mobile ticketing/payment system for transit agencies, developing both backend server technologies and front-end web/mobile interfaces

• Led technical response during crisis, scaled from $100K to $5M daily transactions within 48 hours

• Drove company growth leading to successful $5M acquisition by Siemens

New York, NY

May 2014 – September 2014

• Led a cohort of three other developers and designers to address social concerns of low-income and elderly New Yorkers.

• Organized and managed multiple fact-finding and market-fit planning and design sessions with potential users

• Designed and developed a custom Android launcher specifically for low-technical ability and movement-impaired elderly and disabled users.

United States (multiple states), Europe (multiple countries), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)

2006-2014

• Worked as a photojournalist freelancing for numerous local, regional, national and international publications

• Coverage included daily news, semi-professional and professional sports, travel, nightlife, weddings, entertainment events and conflicts

• Traveled extensively and worked in regions of contrasting cultures, languages, history and social structures, requiring a significant understanding of both local and global politics